Those of you who have used both Traktor and Rekordbox for a long time: does it take longer to prepare your tracks in one or the other? Nah?
I’ve been a super satisfied Traktor user for almost eight years but I’m looking into Rekordbox so that I can stop bringing expensive equipment and laptops to parties and clubs. The convenience of track prep is probably my number one consideration at this point in my life. If Rekordbox has an edge here I’ll migrate immediately.
Both programs are very easy if you have a custom kepmapping that can speed up the process (jump bars, set cues, active loops, etc)
Rekordbox is VERY easy to analyze tracks. I think that the waveform is more clear than that of Traktor. It also has the ability to open your playlists into a grid view for easy managing of all your music.
I recommend whenever you download new music to IMMEDIATELY analyze in both softwares, keeping your library consistent.
Maybe there is, I haven’t looked into it but I’m more concerned about the day to day track prep than I am about converting my library. I’m happy with Rekordbox analyzing tempo and stripes overnight and starting my library over because it’s well tagged and organized with iTunes smart playlists.
I know this software called Rekordbuddy is working on a Serato to Rekordbox option right now, but currently it only exists for Traktor. However, I find the system very difficult to use and it’s a burden… it’s much easier to constantly be analyzing your new tunes in your library as you add them.
I use Traktor for every day DJing and RB when I use Pioneer and usb. I don’t have all my music folders set up in RB, only the ones I will use on usb. Once you have set up your folders/playlists in Traktor you can highlight a list of songs and drag and drop to RB. RB analyzes tracks pretty quickly, and the autogridding is far superior to Traktor. The main issue is your cue points, depending how in depth they are in your set up. Many of the basic cue points you could add on the fly as you’re DJing your more popular tracks.
I am sticking with Traktor for now as I bought an S4 last year and it has three year warranty. I have a feeling I’ll be itching to move across to RB full time by that time especially with where Pioneer are going with their controllers.
I was investigating having some software written that would take Traktor specific metadata, and write it to an unused tag in the .mp3 file.
Specifically, this was to allow me to write Smart Playlists in iTunes based on things like PlayCount in the Traktor metadata. (Never Played, PlayCount >10, Played > 1 month ago, etc…)
The writer I was speaking with disappeared off the face of the earth!
Try Rekord Buddy 2 which was recently released, I followed the instructions carefully to the detail, watched the videos as well before trying anything and it worked really well.
